SOURCE: J. C. B. Lowe, "Aspects of Plautus' Originality in the Asinaria," in Classical Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1992, pp. 152-75.
In the following essay, Lowe compares Plautus's Asinaria to its Greek model Onagos and identifies several aspects of Plautus's comedy which are perhaps Plautine innovations rather than further derivations from Greek materials.
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